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Master of Electronic Art
Spatiality and Interaction
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Digital Art/Digital Technologies Week three
Overview Digital art refers to computer assisted imaging. The world's first digital computer, the ENIAC, dates to 1946. ENIAC was a size of the room and was located at the University of Pensylvania. UNIVAC was the first commercially available personal computer. After experiencing a wave of popularity, computer art floundered in the 1970s, only to experience a come back in 1980s. Currently digitisation and use of computer affects the processing and distribution of other forms of artistic media. The use of the technique of montage, already done by Cubists, Dadaists and Surrealists, characterizes digital art. However it's seamless bringing together of desperate images and media, heightens the degree to which the manipulated is presented as actual. This reconfiguration of ready-made images has given rise to questions about authenticity, authority and aura of a work of art. Charles Csuri, Robert Rauschenberg, Nancy Burson, Lillian Schwartz, John Simon, Jenny Holzer, Tony Ousler & Stephen Vitiello , Cheryl Donegan , Matt Mullican , Jake Tilson , Peter Halley , Frank Fietzek , Jasia Reichardt , Scott Griesbach, Metthew Annu Palakunnathy, Ken Gonzales, Patricia Piccinini, Charles Cohen, Alexander Apostol, Paul Smith, Gerald van der Kaap, Craig Kalpakjan, Joseph Scheer, Peter Campus, Oliver Wasow, Daniel Canagar, Dieter Huber, William Lathen, Andreas Muller-Pohle, Warren Neidich, Casey Williams, Ana Marton, Edmond Couchot , Michael Noll, Stan Vanderbeek, John Whitley, Michael Gaumnitz, Vera Molner , Manfred Mohr, John Dunn, Dan Sandin, Woody Vasulka, Herbert Brub & Lejaren Hiller, Otto Piene, Miguel Chevalier, Norman Ballard & Joy Wulke, Edward Zajec, William Latham, Lera Lublin, Lillian Schwartz, Jean-pierre Yvaral, Keith Cottingham, Antony Aziz & Sammy Cucher, Victor Burin, Chip Lord, Jeff Wall, John Simon, Mariko Mori, Timothy Druckrey Primary Reading Benjamin, Walter The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Verlag, Suhrkamp Walter Benjanin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproruction Negroponte, Nicolas Being Digital
More Roy Ascott at the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales Couchot, E 2005 Media Art: Hybridization and Autonomy Couchot, E 2003 The Automatization of Figurative Techniques: towards the Autonomous Image in Media Art History, MIT Press, EU Popper Frank Art of the Electronic Age
Goodman, Cynthia Digital Visions: Computers & Art Peter Weibel - image as a dynamic system Rudolf Freiling, critic curator: are we reading or scanning
Paul, Christine 2003 Digital ArtJones, Beverly Computer Imagery: Representation and Realities , Leonardo, International Journal of Science and Art , Computer Art in Context: 1989 A Special Edition Juried by the Special Interest Group in Graphics (SIGGRAPH) Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), p31- 38 media art forerunners , cybernetics pioneers Links to web Art Dia Center in New York sponsors ongoing Artist's Web Projects The Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal website with links to art on the Web Gallery 9 on Walker Art Centre site |